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be \VING in the Firft Book proved the Trade-Wind to be 
coeval with the Deluge, as well as from the remaining Ve/fi#- 
gia upon the Surface of the Ifland, that the Courfe and Cur- 
rent of both ran conjunél 
7 j j face betwe 
mates, I fhall endeavour (tho’ a thing hitherto unattempted) to ACCOUNL the Tropien 
This Difference I conceive to be occafioned, firft, by the fudden car ata 
Shiftings of the Winds (a thing common in variable Climates), which, in Force of the 
their Turns, muft needs diverfly determine and impel the Courfe of the anes aes 
Waters (perhaps during the Forty Days Continuance of the Deluge) to the Tropics. 
all the cardinal Points. CSc apart 
Add to this the more rapid Rife and Fall of the Waters, in the Flux 
and Reflux of the Tides, during that Inundation ; for, as the Pofition of 
the Moon, with regard to the Earth, was not then changed, and as we 
read of no Miracle to fufpend her Power, her Influence over the Ele- 
ment 
